Something for Saturday...

Despite still feeling blue and struggling

(I won't lie--I am quite sad and depressed right now...)

I still wanted to get my

"end of tax season" celebration gift

to my dear friend Betsy

who's a CPA.

I was late-as usual.

I had to pick it up in Wilmington

and just didn't get there until my doctor's appt. this week.

Anyway---

I watched a great tutorial video

on a pop-up card

at

Dawn's Stamping Studio

It's a new take on a pop-up card

and I gotta say-

I saw it and rushed in and tried it...

you can, too

just by clicking here...

I really, really liked it

but...

I wanted it a little bigger--

and that wasn't hard to fix at all--just cut my paper a little wider

but, if you know me,

YOU KNOW

I wanted pop dots on that pop up part...

like this...

well drat-typical for the way things are going-

you can't actually see what I popped up!

Trust me-that gal is popped up on the beach towel

as is her drink....

How'd I do that?

Instead of just cutting a straight slit with my paper laid out

the way Dawn showed you...

I folded it in half....

and then, starting 1/2" from the end,

I cut DOWN 1/4" ---I did this on both ends...

and THEN I cut across...

see...

When I open the paper back out...

I have this...

much like the opening in a Kleenex box...!

And plenty of room for that pop up part to pop---

even with Pop-Dots!

The card folds flat for mailing....

Now I will add--that I tried at first

to add a piece of white card stock to the back of the pop up part

to write a message on--

wrong!

The weight of it made it flop backwards too much.

I solved that

by putting it on the bottom of the box instead!

Now-I don't have Stampin' Ups score tool--obviously

that has tons of score lines-

the Score Pal is limited in that department--

but here's what I happened upon last week

as I was working on our groupie kits...

So.

That's it for today.

Resisting the urge to go back to bed

and pull the covers over my head...

I will try and do some flylady things

and maybe a few more cards.

It only took me 3 hours last night

just to upload my delinquent tutorial for

The Prairie Fairy

but I got it done!

(My apologies-again-to Roberta and Corry)

Not sure when it will post there but,

when it does,

I will post it here.

Until next time,

happy stamping and scrapping.

Blessings,